djz@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Daniel Zigmond) (09/06/85)
A friend of mine who is a facilitator at a nearby high school has been given a bunch of Apple IIe's and told help teachers make use of them. Does anyone know of some high quality educational software that could be used in advanced high school classes? I would really appreciate any suggestions. Dan
halff@utah-cs.UUCP (Henry M. Halff) (09/18/85)
>A friend of mine who is a facilitator at a nearby high school has been >given a bunch of Apple IIe's and told help teachers make use of them. Does >anyone know of some high quality educational software that could be used in >advanced high school classes? I would really appreciate any suggestions. One of the best things you can do for high school kids is to introduce them to real uses of computers: word processing, spreadsheets, file managers, telecommunications. So it wouldn't be a bad idea to get something like Appleworks which covers some of these functions. Programming is another obvious application. As far as educational software goes, let me recommend two programs: Rocky's boots from The Learning Company (if they're still in business) and Green Globs from Conduit. The former deals with digital logic (albeit not in a form faithful to real digital circuits). The latter deals with graphs of polynomial functions. Both are in game formats that require active and creative thought about the subject matter. Henry M. Halff, Halff Resources, Inc. halff@utah-cs